Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-17
Red head,
Lie abed,
That is what your nanny said.

And many more efforts at twining red
hair into scorching jokes had come to her
knowledge; but as the years ripened, and
her freckles grew apace as the color of her
| hlrsute covering deepened-aS the luscious
juiciness of round and glorious womanhood
became more and more apparent to the
naked eye, Mamie Navarro had learned to
ignore all red headed jokes, and to take
greater and deeper pride in the roseate splen-
dor of her hair
Once red hair came very near to being the
fashion. That was when the Titianesoue
brand was in large demand among cigarette
package decorators. Mamie was ecstatic
The world was on the brink of a revolution.
If the revolution came her way, then she
could snap her fingers at the blondes and
brunes and brunettes, and shake her CORY
locks in their direction until they were heart
sick and desperate with envy. You can
paint the front walk red, and you can throw
wild Indian hue around a show case or q
store front, but you cannot dye hair red, and
there Mamie had her towheaded and Jet
locked sisters by the back of the neck, meta
phoricany But the revolution did not come
Nannie's way. 1t cut across a lot and shot
up an alley, and the brown nutted girls be-
came the rage.
Fate is hard upon the red headed brigade.
Statistics show that there is something in the
fragrant tint of their capillary crops which
keeps so per cent. of them in constant hard
luck. Men with wide eyebrows and promi-
nent sites on their skulltops for the erection
of large warehouses of common sense refuse
absolutely to have anything to do with red
headed girls, and will not marry them be-
L.
as un,nistakahie beaccps warning the voy-
ager from the dangerous shores of red hot
temper Fiery hair has come to be accepted
the world over as an indication of fiery
temper. And some authorities say that
red headed woman can get mad enough in a
minute to crush her teeth through cold pig
iron.
1 mention these things just to show how
much hard luck red haired person has to
buck against. And Mamie Navarro was no
exception.
She was engaged to Redmund Rose He had
pale hair, but was nice young man, who
knew enough to refrain from wearing red
neckties or partakng of any beverage that
might induce red nose, and he did this purely
out of respect for the color of Nannies hair
Redmund was as handsome and desirable
blonde SIS any woman could wish to win, and
he would give the last cent OF his salary TO
glorify his Nannie's fiery couture. He was
perfectly gone on it. That flaming bunch of
berry red bang filed his eye with JOY and his
heart with delight Ho Wouldn't give strand
of that notorious red hair for the same thick
ness of bank bills. And as Mamie held him
il quite as high esteem as he held her and her
red hair, what wonder was there that they
have agreed to float down the stream of time
together and to begin floating on Sept. IS of
the present yearf
With this perfect understanding between
the two persons most concerned in this mat
ter, my story begins. 1t begins on Sept ii,
nine days before the date Of the wedding,
And here, too, begins Mamie NavaIre's
toughest streak Of hard luck. On the 18th /
she went down town to buy some presents
which she wanted 10 rake 70 herself On her I
wedding day-preseIts to which she would .
attach cards indicating that her brother, her /
mother and her father had sent the offer 1
ings-and as she passed conspicuous corner /
she saw some men rush from q barber shop 4
and exclaim, as they pointed to her:
There goes one, now Where's your /
white horse:'
BY golly, there he comesl' and the crowd .
looked up tie street, laughed, seemed salts
fed and retired again into the shop.
At another point she was gliding by = 6r1g
store when three men LETT the sods fountain
in response 10 a shout from a cane twLriar on
the pavement.
Hello. boys, here's red headed girl! but
/ don't see any white horse.
There comes white mule said one Of
the soda slipping trio, as his delicate bamboo
stick IVES turned toward 4 horse car team
that just then logged into eight from the
sNdo Ct q corner building.
EVERYWHERE down town Mamie heard
nothing la: similar expressions Everybody |
saszned TO he on the lookout, frs for red
tsaded girl and thea foe white horze
i Il ere she cones and ''Teere she goes rang
In her ears until her tynpanun was sore
Irum the vibrations Mortified and lnjser-
.bls. she started for horns. Stepping az open
ar she climbed into aa end seat By. &c
ooae- was she seated than she heard gal1dy
-oung gentleman b4hi2s her remark:
BY George, Joe, If se haven't got e red
.eadsd girl aboard sni . team Of whits
lo-as pulling the car
You may be SURE that Mamie nsrratei her
iveLtures 20 Radnund VIXEN h called that
light But Rednal1d was q se-sible sg-1 81
young fellow. and he merely advised her 70 |
% ahead making h1r preparations for the
Te3dicg ana 70 PAY 70 attention 20 tee white
-1zSa and tie sias2lesolss vho were ha-IaZ
III with X he explained 20 Ter that = vzs
&c revival OF IN cid SUPERSTITION prevalent